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Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.29.16

Planview

Welcome to Spigit’s weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. The skinny: Uber launched in London in mid-2012. Who it’s from: Harvard Business Review. How do you Crowdsource Innovation?

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Five Product Innovations that Evolved Over Time

IdeaScale

They could be a new way to call a cab, drive a car with little need for gas, or a completely new way to look at medical science, technology, or entertainment. By listening to customer’s reviews of its products, Avon was able to innovate within its product line and create something new in response to consumer demand.

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Six Social Media Trends for 2012

Harvard Business Review

So what can we expect in 2012 in a world that seems to grow ever connected by the hour? For example, Sears allows a user to share a product or review with their networks directly from the site. Lastly as we roll into 2012, watch for a more social approach to solving business problems through a sort of micro-economy.

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The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

Harvard Business Review

The revelation highlighted an elephant in the room of our tech world: companies selling the magical speed, omnipotence, and neutrality of artificial intelligence (AI) often can’t make good on their promises without keeping people in the loop, often working invisibly in the background.

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Introducing the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Today, Polly LaBarre, the Editorial Director of MIX (and the coauthor of this post), and I ( Eric Hellweg , the Editor of HBR.org) are happy to announce the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation.

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Innovation Isn't Tied to Size, but to Operating Rules

Harvard Business Review

HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19. Research shows that what was once a sustainable competitive advantage has shifted from 30-40 year arcs to 12 years in most industries, and five years in the tech sector. IBM and HP are two amazing companies with long and meaningful histories.

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Why More M&As Is a Sign That Scale Is No Longer an Advantage

Harvard Business Review

” In a 2012 article for Harvard Business Review, Maxwell Wessel argued that scale, “one of the last bastions from the competitive storm,” is no longer profitable or safe. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big.